Forsyth County Board of Elections Meeting 08/04/20

Board Members:

• Chair Barbara Luth
• Carla Radzikinas
• Mathew Blender
• Joel Natt
• Director of elections: Mandi Smith

Meeting notes:

• M.S: Over 1600 absentee ballots have been mailed to our office and over 600 have early voted so far for the 8-11-20 runoff.
  • We do have enough poll workers for the 8-11-20 election.
• These early voting locations will be open for all 17 days of early voting for the 11-3-20 election:
  • Forsyth County Elections Office
  • Hampton Park Library
  • Parks and Recreational Natural Resources Operations Center
  • Midway Park Community Building
  • Sharon Springs Community Building
  • Coal Mountain Park Community Building (New for early voting)
  • City of Cumming  Recreation Parks Meeting Room (New for early voting)
• These early voting locations will be open for the last 12 days of early voting for the 11-3-20  election:
  • Sharon Forks Library
  • Olde Atlanta Club House 
  • Windermere Lodge
• This early voting location will be open for the last 6 days of early voting for the 11-3-20 election:
  • Sexton Hall Senior Center Recreation Room
• J.N: D.S.L. is the only internet used for the Sawnee Mountain Park Community Building, so we will not use this site as an early voting location for the 11-3-20 election.
• B.L: A motion has been passed all early voting in the county for the 11-3-20 election will be between 8:00am to 5:00pm
• M.S: As of 8-1-20 Forsyth County has 158,927 active registered voters and 7,131 inactive voters for a total of 166,058 registered voters.
• We have held several virtual training sessions for poll workers these last few weeks and have a couple more scheduled for this weekend for Manager training and equipment training that will be done virtually.
• The 8-11-20 runoff election will have 8 election day polling locations.

The Next BOE meeting will be 9-1-20.

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